Lurker Day Spring 2010 Link Collection

Hello hello, and welcome to Lurker Day Spring 2010!

As you may know from Lurker Days past, I usually like to make a "masterpost" of as many Lurker Day links as I can track down. Unfortunately, for Lurker Day Fall '09, I seriously fell down on the job ^^a I still hope to more-or-less catch up, which I will probably get started on just as soon as I remember how to do that "look up a certain date on your friends list" thing.

Those new to Lurker Day can find information on it below the cut, including the Lurker Day concept post and masterposts from previous Lurker Days. I'll probably be adding links from my friends list as the day goes by, but I don't think I'll be quite as vigilant about it as I once was. (If I put up a link to your journal and you'd prefer it not be up, please feel free to let me know, I'll take it down right away. Likewise, if you have a post up that I haven't linked and you'd like it to be, I'll put it right up.) In the mean time, I still have to actually finish some stuff for today, s-so.

Anyhow, I hope you find something that interests you under the cut ♥

( Lurker Day Link Collection )

On Celebrating Lurking

Since starting Lurker Day (localized to my LJ/DW f'list and circle as it may be), I've been paying a lot more attention to when people put up "lurker amnesty" posts. Over all, I'm delighted to see them go up. "Hooray!" I've thought, "Acknowledgment by people that some fans (or followers) may have difficulty delurking on their own! Acknowledgment of lurkers in general! Even if it's not on a regular biannual schedule!" And, well, to paraphrase Dickens, I'd love it if people felt comfortable to keep the spirit of Lurker Day all year 'round.

Of course, it also prompted my familiar enemy Insecurity to pay a visit. "What if people don't really want Lurker Day, now that there's (admittedly somewhat randomized) excuses to delurk? What if it's all pointless now? What if no one cares at all?"

I stewed in that for a while, feeling less and less certain of myself. Then, one day, I went back and re-read my original Lurker Day proposition. And I got to this part:

So I thought, well, why not spend a day celebrating lurkers? I can spend the day coming out of hiding and saying what I've always wanted. It could be just like Library Forgiveness Day (which we don't have here, more's the pity ;_; ) And then I thought, well, that's nice, but it doesn't do anything for those who would rather stay lurkers. I respect that. I respect that a lot. So I thought to myself, I know! On that day, I could post a gift of some sort just for the lurkers here (few though I'm certain you are) ^_^ And that way I could celebrate all of my favorite aspects of lurking--delurking and continuing to lurk! And I would call it: Lurker Day! [...]

Then I spent entirely too much time worrying that it might be a really stupid idea and that no one would ever accept it on LJ. So I decided, to heck with all of that! I'm celebrating Lurker Day on my LJ regardless of whether the rest of the world does or not! And anyone else who wants to celebrate is more than welcome to do so!

My self-confidence is back, now. Or, at least, my not giving a whit whether anyone outside the usual suspects celebrates it (though again, if you feel like joining in, that's A-OK by me ^_^).

Moreover, it reminded me of one of the core reasons I will continue to celebrate Lurker Day: to keep the idea that you don't have to delurk to be loved.

The meaning of Lurker Day has expanded somewhat for me and other celebrants, as we make it what we want. Now, we can use it as an excuse to drop a comment by someone we haven't spoken with in a while, in addition to delurking - or not delurking. And we can use it as our -own- excuse to delurk, when Lurker Amnesty posts aren't up or haven't been up for a while.

So hello to you, my partners in Lurkerdom! May you have a truly wonderful Lurker Day today, no matter how you choose to celebrate it ♥

Lurker Day Meme

Well! I had wanted to post the next installment of Communications today, or perhaps the next bit of Holiday Spirits or something, but it looks as if that isn't going to happen after all, more's the pity.

Instead, it's time for my traditional Lurker Day Meme~ This one was stolen shamelessly from inarticulate:

There are lots of fanfiction clichés out there: High school/boarding school AUs, superhero AUs, historical AUs, modern AUs, truth or dare/truth serum/truth potions, sex pollen fic, outer space AUs, pirate AUs, motorcycle gang AUs, apocalypse fic, aliens made them do it, soulbonding, arranged marriage, the list is infinite. Pick one, or make up a wacky AU setting all your own, and give me the name of one character I know. Then I'll pick a character or two to pair them with, and write you a few sentences of cliché fic!

There's some fandoms that I'm more comfortable writing than others, of course, so I'll just list them first:

Almost anything by CLAMP
DC/MK
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Tokimeki Mononoke Gakuen
Hayate Cross Blade
Ouran High School Host Club

Other than that, uh. Ask and I'll say yes or no, I guess?

(Seriously, request away. I imagine I would quite like to do some of these :3)